In Black and White: The 2024 San Francisco Fall Show
Elliot Erwitt: Candice Bergin at the Black and White Ball, New York, 1966
The theme for this year's San Francisco Fall Show is "The Timeless Appeal and Elegant Contrast of Black-and-White." We anticipate seeing Gala outfits inspired by Truman Capote's 1966 masquerade, the Black and White Ball, and the recent TV series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. The opening night party is on October 16, 2024, at Fort Mason Center Festival Pavilion, benefiting The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Visit the fair from October 17 to 20th, 2024, to experience the leading international art, antiques, and design show on the West Coast, which features many of the world's most distinguished dealers.
Fred Lyon: Fog Along San Francisco Embarcadero, Ferry Building in Distance, San Francisco, 1948
Nothing exemplifies black and white like the silvered shades seen in photojournalism's golden age. The photographer Robert Frank described it as, "Black and white are the colors of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected." San Francisco is fortunate to have legendary photographer Fred Lyon (1924-2022) document its urban landscape. Exhibitor Peter Fetterman Gallery represents his images, which showcase the activities and dreams of the city's inhabitants against a backdrop of fog, from high-society debutantes to blue-collar workers.
Henri Matisse: L'Homme endormie, Aquatint, 1936
The name Henri Matisse conjures up images of vivid colors and expressive brush strokes. Still, the French visual artist who painted Woman with a Hat in 1905 also worked with the etching plate and lithograph stone. At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, you can visit the once-controversial Fauvist portrait of his wife, Amélie Matisse. You might have seen the 2022 Nudes and Odalisques exhibit at exhibitor MODERNISM's gallery if you were lucky. The show included thirty-one exquisite prints made by Matisse between 1913 and 1947, focusing on the purity of line and absence of color.
Predynastic Egyptian Diorite Jar, Egyptian · Predynastic, 3100 B.C
Ancient Egyptians mined the black and white speckled stone Diorte to carve ceremonial vessels and religious sculptures—the Predynastic Egyptian jar found in exhibitor Phoenix Ancient Art's inventory dates from 3100 B.C. The vase shows off the technical skills of the Egyptian stone carver and the decorative quality of the Diorte's abstract inclusions. Stone vases and jars were luxury items that contained expensive cosmetic oils and ointments during life and followed royalty and the elite in their graves to the afterlife. Phoenix Ancient Art, with galleries in New York and Geneva, specializes in rare antiquities.
